Word: generous
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President Neil L. Rudenstine, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and Campaign Chair Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 form an indefatigable combination that charms Harvard's biggest gifts out of its most generous donors...
President Neil L. Rudenstine, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and Campaign Chair Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 form an indefatigable combination that charms Harvard's biggest gifts out of its most generous donors...
Rudenstine, Fineberg, Stone and the deans of Harvard's schools meet personally with particularly wealthy or generous would-be donors...
Okay, okay, that's not quite what I meant. Katherine Loker is a fine human being whose remarkable magnanimity has served Harvard in a number of areas, from endowing professorships to renovating Widener Library. We should all strive to be as thoughtful and generous as she. So don't interpret this as some diatribe against Mrs. Loker. Lord knows, I wouldn't want to offend some of you sensitive types out there...
...probably more apt than its director, Arnold Lehman, ever intended. "Sensation" was advertised as liable to "cause shock, vomiting, confusion, panic, euphoria and anxiety." Indeed, its contents--most controversial of which are sliced-up animals suspended in formaldehyde and Chris Ofili's painting of the Virgin Mary with a generous helping of dung on her bosom--are not for the knock-kneed...